What important information from W3C will we now consider before producing our website?

After reading about and researching the W3C standards, we can now consider some approaches to web design and accessability for our own website.

Some of these could include:

• conforming to W3C standards in order to make site as compatible as possible between all browsers
• periodically check our website against the W3C validator during development so that anything that needs to be fixed can be
• make sure correct HTML mark-up is in place to assist the blind or sight-impaired if they are using a text-to-speech parser
• avoid any garish or unsightly colour schemes
• consider css styling to give option of changing text size
• make proper use of keyboard tabbing so that navigation is still (mostly) possible without mouse
• stick to standard, readable fonts of a decent size (at least 14)

In general it is all about making our site as widely available as possible to anyone with a standard browser and making the information available to the most people.

Chow!